The nature of giving

The nature of giving

The nature of giving

is much less

of the gratitude of receiving.

My distant desire

of deprivation

is a song that rarely

comes back in thought

of the winter days,

in the summer ones

when consuming

the more quickly you feel it

and there is more hunger,

more thirsty among the people

and giving and having

they are like the waves of the sea

who take and bring them to the shore

now a smile,

now a bunch of bread,

and now those

who come to look

their paradise on earth

or their damn.

The anniversary

than in the fall

is an infamous reminder,

he faces me in the fallen leaves

like a manure

who does not know what to do,

where to go to put

not to waste

their energies.

Nothing is created

and nothing is destroyed,

but something escapes

like enthalpy

which exasperates the boundaries

soul

and leaves her helpless

waiting

of a new theory.

Gioacchino Ruocco

Ostia Lidi 07.11.017

To Anna Di Cerbo

for his magnanimous attention

to my work in verse,

to my time

looking

the reason of my life

which can also serve others.

Gioacchino Ruocco